The Firing Line Forums - View Single Post - HCI defines fully automatic weapons as "Weapons of Mass Destruction"

Byron Quick · March 9, 1999, 07:48 AM

Sure, Jeff. There have been plenty of incidents involving automatic weapons. Damn near all the time in Miami. There have been none, repeat none, involving NFA registered weapons since passage of the National Firearms Act of 1934. No private citizen with a NFA registered weapon has EVER used that weapon in a crime. The NFA has not prevented any criminals from using them either. The 1986 ban on future production for private citizens has not stopped one incident. Between 1934 and 1986 approximately 125,000 weapons were registered with F Troop. In the months prior to the 1986 ban 186,000 weapons were registered for a total of approximately 311,000 Class III weapons. It would have taken 71 years at the prior rate of registration for that many automatic weapons to be legally registered. The year 2057!

Conclusion? Either HCI's honchoes are very stupid or their agenda is not what they say it is. You choose.

March 9, 1999, 07:48 AM	#4
Byron Quick Staff In Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Waynesboro, Georgia, USA Posts: 2,361	Sure, Jeff. There have been plenty of incidents involving automatic weapons. Damn near all the time in Miami. There have been none, repeat none, involving NFA registered weapons since passage of the National Firearms Act of 1934. No private citizen with a NFA registered weapon has EVER used that weapon in a crime. The NFA has not prevented any criminals from using them either. The 1986 ban on future production for private citizens has not stopped one incident. Between 1934 and 1986 approximately 125,000 weapons were registered with F Troop. In the months prior to the 1986 ban 186,000 weapons were registered for a total of approximately 311,000 Class III weapons. It would have taken 71 years at the prior rate of registration for that many automatic weapons to be legally registered. The year 2057! Conclusion? Either HCI's honchoes are very stupid or their agenda is not what they say it is. You choose.